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...year ago the local doctors had Tupá Mbaé jailed in Posadas for practicing without a license. This made Tupá Mbaé a martyr and hundreds made pilgrimages to see him behind the bars. Presently a sharper bailed Tupá Mbaé out of jail, began to exploit him. The medical profession finally forced Tupá Mbaé across the border into his native Paraguay, but there he found willing protectors...
Otherwise Mr. Starnes agreed with Captain Armstrong. Except for a momentary blackout when he pulled the ripcord, his mind was sharper and quicker than when his feet were on the ground. Like Dr. Armstrong, he had no "gone" feeling, which one gets when an elevator begins to fall too rapidly. His heartbeat and blood pressure were normal at all times...
President Roosevelt thought so too. He was taking no nonsense from Japan. His instructions to the Cabinet departments grew sharper in tone. Result: the Japanese were impressed for the first time with the seriousness of the U.S. about-face from Far East appeasement...
...efforts to stop inflation by saving the consumer from himself. To Henderson, the 18-month limit on time sales of consumers' durable goods looks generous. Henderson had already persuaded Eccles to include furniture in his list of controlled goods. Now he pushed him into threatening still sharper restrictions...
This finding was a sharp slap at the Army's Quartermaster General Edmund B. Gregory and his corps. Sharper still was the committee's chief recommendation: that Army construction be taken entirely away from the Quartermasters, and that camp maintenance and construction be transferred to a new and separate organization of qualified specialists...